Six Greenpeace activists scaled a large cross on Montreal’s Mount Royal to place two banners protesting logging practices in the Canadian boreal forest. Forests stretch across thousands of kilometres of Canada. Although most of it is publicly-owned, companies are allowed to log if they do so in a sustainable way.
The banners read “Defend the forest” and “Justice?” and express Greenpeace concerns with pulp and paper manufacturer Resolute Forest Products. The conservation group’s spokesman Nicolas Mainville said the company’s activities in Quebec and Ontario threaten caribou habitats and indigenous populations, and that the company had lost an important environmental certification recently.
Resolute spokesman Seth Kursman called the action just another step in Greenpeace’s “outrageous, inaccurate and deceptive allegations against Resolute.”
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